I believe you can get brain worms from raw milk.

I’m an Apple user and I’ve never even been in an Android community.

This is an apple_enthusiast community. Why are there so many Apple hating trolls on here? Is their life really so harmed by the existence of Apple that they have to spend every waking moment trashing them on an enthusiast community? I feel sorry for them.

Such a thing shouldn’t exist.

Especially concerning to the military leaders of authoritarian regimes!

Adguard plus iCloud Private Relay is hard to beat for me.

I don’t mean to be pedantic, but private relay is a little different than a third party VPN service (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614). You still have to trust the VPN provider with your logs as well as Quad9 with your DNS requests. There are examples of VPN providers that have said “we delete your logs” when in fact they do not. On the other hand, I have to trust that Apple is not logging my browsing. To me, the private relay approach appears to guarantee that but obviously there’s some risk no matter how you do it. I won’t argue with the dislike for Apple services.

Easy privacy so my data can’t be mined. I am not comfortable with any random company or person sifting through my browsing habits. Note to yourself and others: private relay does not protect or anonymize illegal or illicit activity.

iCloud private relay is the one reason I won’t leave Apple ecosystem.

I moved to lemmy.ml

Microsoft did this with Office document formats, effectively killing OpenDocument and dramatically reducing the power of LibreOffice, etc. Threads will incorporate features that are not available in the open source versions of lemmy, driving users to their platform and marginalizing the open source versions. All the while sucking up user data and ignoring user privacy. Are we not stewards for user privacy for ALL users, not just the savvy ones?

Where have you read that lemmyworld has no intention of blocking Threads? I will leave as well if true.

Please remember the example of Microsoft and open source office document formats. And in the early days of Internet Explorer with HTML. The risk here is that Threads will embrace the fediverse for a bit. Then they will incorporate features that are only available in Threads that will bleed users away from the open source options. All the while vacuuming up user data for profit while having distain for user privacy. Why would we want to allow them to cast aside the privacy for only one of our users? Are we not going to act like stewards for open source and protection of user privacy?

Completely agree - If lemmy.world doesn’t block very shortly I will move to a different instance.

Remind Me doesn’t remove the mail from your inbox, so a non starter for people that strive for inbox zero.

Negative. Remind Me does not remove the mail from your inbox and then make it reappear at the desired time (which is what I meant by “functional snooze”). For those of us that aspire to achieve inbox zero, Remind Me is not a functional snooze.

The same thing it does on your alarm clock.

I require a functional snooze feature so Apple Mail is out. Outlook randomly deletes iCloud emails and Canary is too slow. So I am left with Spark on both Mac and iOS.